Famous Quotes & Sayings

Desmond Tutu

The fundamental law of human beings is interdependence. A person is a person through other persons.

Derek Luke

Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That's why faith and spirituality is a higher law.

Derek Sivers

When you make a business, you get to make a little universe where you control all the laws.

Deepak Chopra

Laws of nature have no physical properties of mass /energy. They are platonic truths in transcendent realm that create & govern the Universe.

Deepak Chopra

You and I are infinite choice-makers. In every moment of our existence, we are in that field of all possibilities where we have access to an infinity of choices. Some of these choices are made consciously, while others are made unconsciously. But the best way to understand and maximize the use of karmic law is to become consciously aware of the choices we make every moment.

Deepak Chopra

The Law of Detachment: 1) Allow yourself and others the freedom to be who they are. 2) Do not force solutions - allow solutions to spontaneously emerge. 3) Uncertainty is essential, and you path to freedom.

Debbie Stabenow

We must continue to be diligent in protecting Americans' civil liberties while preserving critical law enforcement tools we need to keep America safe.

Chuck Palahniuk

The laws that keep us safe, these same laws condemn us to boredom.

Chuck Grassley

Some liberal interest groups have come out in full force and have attempted to paint Judge [Samuel] Alito to be an extremist and to be an activist. They've criticized a nominee who has, from what I see described by these lawyers and fellow judges, a reputation of being a restrained jurist committed to the rule of law and the Constitution.

Chuck Grassley

Unfortunately, throughout the housing crisis we've seen innocent homeowners who have been victims of shady mortgage lenders and unscrupulous individuals who have used a down market to line their own pockets at the expense of others. This bill is designed to send a message by revising our laws to ensure criminals are brought to justice and that law enforcement has the tools to uncover these fraudulent schemes and go after the bad actors. Criminals should be put on notice that ripping off homeowners and taxpayers won't be tolerated.

Chuck Grassley

My goal for reform is not necessarily to pass laws but to make sure the laws are being followed.

Christopher Moore

Only cops and vampires have to have an invitation to enter.

Anne Bishop

When honor and the Law no longer stand on the same side of the line, how do we choose[?]

Andrew Carnegie

Private Property, the Law of Accumulation of Wealth, and the Law of Competition... these are the highest results of human experience, the soil in which society so far has produced the best fruit.

Andrew Carnegie

...the law which is never to be broken is never required.

Alyson Hannigan

There should be a law that there's a pajama day every few weeks.

Anthony Daniels

For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

Anthony de Mello

There were rules in the monastery, but the Master always warned against the tyranny of the law. 'Obedience keeps the rules,' he would say. 'Love knows when to break them.'

Anna Letitia Barbauld

Englishmen are said to love their laws; - that is the reason, I suppose, they give us so many of them, and in different editions.

Anne Parillaud

I try to live the moment and not obey laws, rules, conventions, or norms; to react to a sensation, a feeling, or an emotion. You can't program emotion.

I have decided not to appeal the ruling that took my law license. My accusers, the Board of Supervisors, once again have fired my lawyers, ensuring I cannot properly defend myself or my anti-corruption efforts.

Andrew Taylor Still

An osteopath is only a human engineer, who should understand all the laws governing his engine and thereby master disease.

Andrew Solomon

When a church manipulates the law to say, "These people are lesser," it takes a lot of resilience to hold your head up and say, "I am not lesser!" Some people can do it and some cannot; and some of those people who cannot will be destroyed.

Clay Aiken

We need to make sure that the laws we're passing are protecting people. And we should not be voting against something that makes progress just because it doesn't make as much progress as we'd like to see made. As much as I might like to see any number of issues progress in larger steps, I understand that some of these things happen in smaller steps. And so for that reason, progress is progress. And success is success.

Daniel Kahneman

A general “law of least effort” applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.

D. H. Lawrence

Away with all ideals. Let each individual act spontaneously from the forever incalculable prompting of the creative wellhead within him. There is no universal law.

Cullen Hightower

Our laws can be friendly to those who obey them, and too often useful to those who don't.

Cullen Hightower

The American way is the way most law-abiding Americans live - in debt. Does this make a balanced budget un-American?

Conrad Hilton

There is a natural law, a Divine law, that obliges you and me to relieve the suffering, the distressed and the destitute.

Clint Walker

So, I got into the law enforcement game. I worked for an outfit called Newton Detective Agency for a while. I worked eight hours on the waterfront making sure the longshoremen didn't take too many things.

Clarence Darrow

Freedom comes from human beings, rather than from laws and institutions.

Clarence Darrow

The trouble with law is lawyers.

Clarence Darrow

I have lived my life, and I have fought my battles, not against the weak and the poor - anybody can do that - but against power, against injustice, against oppression, and I have asked no odds from them, and I never shall.